SHIFZ is the syntharturalist art association, founded and based in Vienna.

Friday, July 07, 2006

Cocktailrobot(s), off duty

One of the technologically more advanced pieces to mix cocktails at this year's ROBOEXOTICA (dec. 5th-9th, MQ Freiraum) will be coming from FH Technikum's mechatronic/robotics-students.With three industrial robot arms in play, their automatic bar offers a variety of drinks, which are "processed" in a wound-track assembly-line.Today I visited the FH school to have a look with DI Malisa at what could be done to shrink it to fit into Freiraum ...As it is seen here in the school's lobby it features 4 touchscreen terminals to serve thirsty technophiles - and at Automatica fair in Munich earlier this year those were all busy dispensing free alcohol ...